Leading Blog

JUNE 5, 2019

He cites a passage from General Gordon Sullivan’s book, Hope Is Not a Method , that is particularly instructive. It is how successful leaders in business, in all walks of life, in fact, operate: by keeping their eyes on today and on the vision— always moving forward. This is a powerful book. Honest, straightforward, and insightful.

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Chief Financial Officer Self-aware Gordon Open-book 339

Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2018

But that is because they don’t understand that there are two parts to servant leadership: a visionary/direction, or strategic role—the leadership aspect of servant leadership and an implementation, or operational role—the servant aspect of servant leadership. To me, that’s what servant leadership is all about.”.

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Servant Leader Gordon Leadership Blanchard 189

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

Dov Gordon [link] mikemyatt Hi Dov: As with other endeavors, poorly conceived or unneeded restructuring efforts will not end well. That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle. Others avoid it at all costs because it's a distraction from their distractions.

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Restructuring Blog CEO Brand 305

Leading Blog

AUGUST 8, 2011

For example: Emphasize One Goal – Gordon Bethune, CEO of Continental Airlines, recognized that his customers valued on-time performance. With such a diverse clientele, employees cannot simply operate by choosing from a limited number of preselected solutions to guest requests. He set this as the measure of success for the company.

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Leadership Simon Cooper Gordon 284

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

In " Vision: Your Pathway to Victory," author Gordon D'Angelo defines "vision" as the process that brings imagination to creation. Guiding Principles: A universal operating standard that guides decision-making both personally and organizationally. But you know you want more than what is.

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Mission Statement Self-aware Gordon Drucker 163

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 19, 2022

It’s nearly a decade since Northwestern’s Robert Gordon pondered whether sclerotic innovation was causing the death of economic growth as we had come to know it. Similarly, the evidence that the best entrepreneurs tend to be a bit older also rests heavily on their greater combined life experiences with which to combine in various ways.

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Diversity Entrepreneur Innovation Gordon 136

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Sharing a TRIZ problem-solving tool called DTC Operator. This tool comes from this great book called TRIZICS by Gordon Cameron. I built this out on Mural; you can download the Innovation DTC operator Mural template here. DTC Operator. Generally, DTC Operator is set up for more technical problems. Video Transcript.

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Cost TRIZ Innovation Operations 88

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2019

Sean Gordon has an extensive track record recruiting, hiring, training, and unlocking the talent of people. He started with AT&T, where he built award-winning teams in sales and operations from coast to coast. Connect with Sean Gordon on LinkedIn. About the Author. Sean founded vidREACH.io

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Video Gordon Film Creativity 10

Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2018

A great insight into how the advertising industry operates combined with enough fictional drama to keep you binge watching those episodes. Gordon Ramsey Kitchen Nightmares. In this reality TV series, Gordon Ramsey takes his foul mouth and flaring temper to various restaurants that are struggling to stay afloat.

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Entrepreneur Gordon Advertising Supply Chain 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Sean Gordon has an extensive track record recruiting, hiring, training, and unlocking the talent of people. He started with AT&T, where he built award-winning teams in sales and operations from coast to coast. Connect with Sean Gordon on LinkedIn. About the Author. Sean founded vidREACH.io

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Content Gordon Video Budgeting 50

Deming Institute

AUGUST 7, 2017

Gordon McGilton and Dennis Sergent share evidence from their experience that will help others transform their enterprises by focusing on their system and aim. Jet-Hot integrates Deming’s system view with their own management or operating system. Gordon: We don’t write job descriptions. Guest post by John Hunter.

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System Deming Gordon Organization 31

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2019

Modern businesses need cybercrime deterrent solutions to maintain the security of operations. Additionally, you’ll want to educate employees on how to operate securely throughout your company at intervals, as new threats develop in the tech world all the time. II: Internal Employee Error. III: Corporate Espionage. VI: Scaling Out.

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Technology Contingency Plans Gordon Software 10

Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 30, 2019

A few years ago, I spent a weekend at a men’s retreat with Jon Gordon and that’s where I learned the power of one word. I’m shifting away from my operational and senior executive responsibilities to spend more time writing, researching, speaking, and training. I give you permission.

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Mission Statement Gordon Blanchard Energy 55

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

For rhyming purposes and historical recall, it would be nice if it were the year 1964 when Gordon Moore discovered what came to be known as Moore’s Law. Whichever way you go, solutions like database mirroring can help operations on the web remain continuous while you troubleshoot a primary network. Covering All Your Bases.

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Guidelines Gordon Software Technology 50

You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 15, 2009

The Penguins were delighted with the idea that Perry would bring a refreshing new perspective to their operation and Perry, being an ambitious sort, was equally delighted to be chosen. For a deeper view on this, check out the book “Orbiting The Giant Hairball&# by Gordon McKenzie ( [link] ). But then, the tide changed.

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Gordon Open-book Library Diversity 46

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

When it comes to specialist operations, experience is key, so he was going to visit each of them and then make a decision. However, when I spoke to him again, he had just decided where he was going to have the operation: in the hospital in his hometown in Spain. I was surprised; there was no specialist in that hospital.

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Gordon Strategy Decisionmaking Objective 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

It is a risk to business operations and profitability. David Gordon is the head of research at Eurasia Group and former director of policy planning at the U.S. Now there's a real risk that the entire corporate brain could be exposed, just as the diplomatic brain of the U.S. government has been opened for all to explore.

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Gordon Hedge Public Relations Document 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The Gordon-Howell Report in 1959, funded by the Ford Foundation, criticized the weak scientific foundation of business education, suggesting that professors were more like quacks than serious scholars. The economics of operating large campuses, and big faculties and admin staff are inflating the costs of business education beyond reason.

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Education Drucker Globalization Trends 21

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

In private equity — the world of Bain, and LBOs, and Gordon Gekko — replacing the CEO is part of the deal. In the case of venture-funded companies, which have little operating experience and untested ideas, the bargain is both the idea and the people, with the latter more important than the former.

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Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Gordon CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

When Gordon M. Less can be more when it comes to incentives. Consider how pleased you are when a friend brings a bottle of wine to your house for dinner and how different you'd feel if he offered to pay you for the meal. In the office, small gestures create a similar friendly feeling.

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Motivation Gordon Sharpe Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

As Deborah Gordon, an ant biologist at Stanford, points out, “Elegant top-down designs are appealing, but the robustness of ant algorithms shows that tolerating imperfection sometimes leads to better solutions.” When ants don’t find food, they increase the randomness of their searching.

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Organization Uncertainty Gordon Budgeting 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

Under the leadership of Bob Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove, Intel crafted the silicon lexicon of Moore’s Law, microprocessors, and megahertz that made digital innovation exponential. Simply put, your innovation needs to do more than merely add measurable value, it needs to measurably change behavior. It needs to be a verb.

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Gordon Innovation Brand Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The Gordon-Howell Report in 1959, funded by the Ford Foundation, criticized the weak scientific foundation of business education, suggesting that professors were more like quacks than serious scholars. The economics of operating large campuses, big faculties, and admin staff are inflating the costs of business education beyond reason.

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Education Drucker Gordon Scientific Management 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In The Good Jobs Strategy , Zeynep Ton, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, demonstrates how the best retail companies align their customer value proposition with their operations strategy and their approach to human capital. It’s not money that’s in short supply; it’s good growth ideas.

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Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In The OnRamp Fellowship operates on a different model. And last week J.P. In full disclosure, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, J.P. and roughly 50% have been hired into permanent positions.

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Ulrich Cooper Gordon Diversity 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Hospital consolidation is on the rise , a trend that shows no signs of abating as providers try to streamline back-end operations and deploy big data analytics in hopes of improving outcomes and lowering costs. Dr. Gordon Moore of Rochester, New York traveled a parallel path. The attempts to “fix” the U.S.

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Health Care Gordon Travel Cost 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

Gordon Moore – soft-spoken, affable but distant, the most empirical human being imaginable — and, thanks to his Law, a man who likely would be remembered for centuries after Silicon Valley is gone. Grove the table-pounder made sure Intel operated at peak performance, but it was Noyce the risk-taker who propelled it forward.

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Team Diversity Gordon Industry 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2015

If what it takes to operate the businesses and make them successful are fundamentally similar, then it will be helpful to have a unifying corporate culture so that knowledge and learning get shared. Gordon Moore and Andy Grove were at Intel for decades. Is it unusual that the founders are still deeply involved at this inflection point?

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Gordon Business Model CEO Class 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Gordon Ross, a lead tester on the Grand Theft Auto game, reportedly characterized it as “madness.” The UK tech sector has been among the groups most vigorously opposed to exiting. A survey of members of Tech London Advocates, an industry group, revealed that 87% opposed Brexit.

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Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

We then plop them into an ICU or operating room and hope that they somehow work together. But we had to focus because the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which funded the project, wanted to ensure that we demonstrated results. No doubt, patients are at risk for more than seven harms.

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Health Care Engineering System Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

After yet another painful discussion about what to do, the late Andy Grove, then Intel’s president, turned to CEO Gordon Moore and asked , “If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?” ” Moore answered without hesitation: “He would get us out of memories.”

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Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% The Betty and Gordon Moore Foundation provided partial funding for the research. of revenues) and $13 million to $62 million (0.01% to 0.7% of revenues). million (0.01% to 0.6%

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Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

It seemed as if there was never a good time for Susie Gordon and Antonio Barile to talk. I really do think the company''s at a stage where it could benefit from having an operations person running it. Alessandra, Bottoni''s head of operations, had sent her some revised process sheets. It''s my turn to stir!"

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Case Study Gordon Learning-by-Doing Course 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

tech workers earn, research by Gordon Hanson of UC San Diego and Matthew Slaughter of Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business has found that while immigrants usually earn less than native-born workers across most occupations (controlling for factors like age, education, and gender), this difference tends to be smaller in STEM fields. .”

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Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 13